ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,545, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Interactive and smart workflow to measure noise free formation pressure and characterize supercharge in formation testing" was invented by Mehdi Ali Pour Kallehbasti (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods to obtain representative formation pore pressure and formation mobility from pressure measurements with a formation testing tool. In some embodiments, the method includes performing a first pre-test in which a pressure sensor measures a drawdown pressure and a buildup pressure, calculating a statistical value ...